A survey of more than 1000 students by SBC Communications concludes students find home “high speed access” crucial to their academic work.
The study also reveals:
?? 80 percent of older students, 12- to 17-year-olds, are given Internet assignments to complete at school, and nearly 65 percent go online at home to complete Internet-related homework.
?? Nearly 60 percent of 6- to 11-year-olds are completing Internet projects at school, and more than 30 percent have Internet-related work to complete at home.
Students are using the Internet instead of their textbooks or traditional reference books to complete schoolwork.
?? Among 12- to 17-year-olds, more than four in five use the Internet to look for better information compared with what they can find in their school books.
?? Nearly 60 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds are bypassing the dictionaries, thesauruses and encyclopedias on the bookshelves and going online for these resources.
